GOVERNING IN THE SHADOWS, Angola's securitised state

295pp., map, paperback, London, 2021

Paula Cristina Roque on Angola’s post-conflict state-building.

"Paula Roque delves into the subterranean world of presidential power in Angola - an opaque system of shadow government, with a vast security infrastructure and complex strategies of political preservation. A masterly contribution to scholarly work on Angolan politics." Tony Hodges, author of Angola: Anatomy of an oil state

"Roque shines a light on Angola’s decades-long 'armed peace' and identifies securitisation - as discourse, strategy and infrastructure - at its shadowed heart. A deeply researched picture of an unaccountable, secretive machinery, justified by a 'permanent crisis' that it both imagines and makes all too real." Jocelyn Alexander, Professor of Commonwealth Studies, Department of International Development, University of Oxford

Paula Cristina Roque has worked for the Crisis Management Initiative, the International Crisis Group, and the Institute for Security Studies. She is a founding member of the South Sudan Center for Strategic and Policy Studies.